I should have read the first book in the series but it didn't stop me from enjoying this book. I loved the time travel element and the characters. I am not much of a history romance reader but if more books were like this I would be picking them up more. The writing and pacing of the story was easy to follow and understand. It had me hooked from page one and I couldn't stop reading. Though I did have to take breaks to eat and sleep.

Another wonderful story set in the Highlands, lots of drama and a beautiful love story makes this a perfect read.

This book is a rare treat, as it combines two subgenres of romance that aren't often paired - historical and science fiction - and it was done very well! It's not the first book in the series, so I was apprehensive beginning in the middle. However, Lexi Post did an amazing job keeping the reader "in the know" without over-explaining past events, and while characters from the first book appeared several times, they weren't so prominent that the first book had to be read to enjoy the second. Interestingly, the reader gets a good portion of time in the present and in the past, which gave a very science fiction feel to the book. I was thinking the focus would be mainly in the past, which majority of the book was, but even then, you felt like you were a visitor. It was a great perspective as a reader and one I enjoyed.

Katz Almira, an agent of Time Weaves Incorporated, is being sent on a mission to save...well...America. A disruptor has messed with time, and now Canada and the northern U.S. is called the New World and the rest of the U.S. is part of the Nappian Empire. It's not right, and someone has to go back in time to right the wrong that's been done. They identify a key player in history, Lord John Byron, whom she needs to meet and ensure he gets a note of national security from his band of pickpockets, a group of young boys he financially supports. Going back in time has always been a fun challenge for Katz, but she didn't anticipate finding the past...or a certain someone in the past...so alluring. Never has it been so hard to keep her mind on the mission at hand, instead of thinking of what she'll leave behind when she inevitably must return to present day.

Katz was a fun heroine, particularly when paired with a gentleman from the past who has no idea what to do with her. Her interactions with the boys were so cute, and I wished we could have had more of that throughout the story. Heck, if Lord Byron were completely out of the picture, and it was just Katz and the pickpocketing children, I would have been happy. Each boy was so colorful and unique, and Katz's ability to protect them was admirable. Being from the present, she had a distinct advantage when it came to understanding how to maneuver to get what she wanted, but she certainly had a difficult time with John. He was such a gentleman, and really my only point of contention with him was his inability to see her as more than a potential mistress. The man treads the line between success and ruin every day, supporting the pickpockets as he does, but the minute he wants to marry below his station? Egads, no! That was difficult for me, and while Katz had a more modern mentality that didn't need marriage, I was on the other side of the Kindle screen yelling at John. Oh well, maybe this is why I stick with one genre or another. When they mix, my brain can get befuddled.

I will definitely be checking out more books in this series, starting with the first one! Lexi Post is an engaging writer sure to bring new readers in the romance fold.

Not often I read time travel ones any more but could not resist this author. Katz has a mission I think that can not be messed up. The time is a good one with place being London whom I do like to read about and watch their shows. Oh and how about that Lord John whom anyone will need a fan for. The odd thing that happens is what gets our attention also. Having to stay on track will not be so easy but we turn those pages to see how it can go sideways. What comes out of it will be what we want to know.

I haven’t read a time travel romance in awhile. There always seems to be major plot holes or the time traveler is too stupid to live. But this book was a blast (to the past 🤣) to read. I love the idea of an agency that travels back in time to stop Disruptors - a group that for some yet unknown reason messes with time to the detriment of the world as we know it.

These ladies are genetically capable of time travel and learn about the time they’re going to so are ready for what they experience. In this case, Katz has to go back to 1815 to a get a note to the War Office or Napoleon wins the war. She needs to ensure Jack gets it there. Jack is currently helping a group of pickpocket children and she fits right in with her own history.

The relationships that Katz unintentionally develops with the boys and with Lord Jack Byron were sweet. She insists on being on her own, but doesn’t realize how she easily connects with others. She and Jack are stubborn and I loved seeing their friendship and attraction grow into love.

I found this book to be a very engaging read. I just loved the characters of Katz and Jack ( Lord Byron). Katz was very streetwise but had issues with her childhood. Jack was an honourable man and his views towards the poor had altered considerably since his time spent in the army. He, too, had issues to deal with. There was something just so endearing about the little gang of pickpockets, especially dear little Pip. This was a real page turner as Katz tried to discover who was the Disruptor. Most of this story takes place in the East End of London, so very few ballroom scenes. There is also the growing feelings between Katz and Jack but how can anything come it, given their circumstances. I had read the first in this series but this works well as a standalone, although the first book was equally as good. I’m looking forward to reading the next in the series. I received a copy and have voluntarily reviewed it. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Katz Amira has a clear mission--travel to the past, steal the note that ruins the world, travel back to the present. This won't be a problem since she;\'s the best pickpocket Time Weavers Inc. has ever had. She'll need to convince Lord John Bryon to let her stay in the warehouse with the orphan boys he protects.

It is the perfect place to hide, she'll be able to find out what John does every day and with who. Katz realizes her growing attachment to the boys and John, but she needs to focus on her mission.

One of my favorite scenes was towards the end. She's returned from her mission, she's miserable and emotional and when she finally talks to someone about what's going with her, that person has to point out that she's in love.

This is a standalone but I would definitely start with the first book in the series, to better understand the reason for the time travel.

Thanks so much to Entangled, NetGalley and the author for this ARC to review

A Pocket in Time is the second book in the Time Weavers Inc. series by Lexi Post. A well-written time travel romance that had me turning the pages quickly to see what would happen next.

Katz Almira’s mission is clear—travel to the past, steal the note that ruins the world, travel back to the present. Easy. She’s the best pickpocket Time Weavers, Inc. has ever had. Posing as a poor widow in Regency London, she convinces her target, Lord John Byron, a man as sexy as he is wealthy, to take her in off the streets. But at her request to keep her hidden, instead of his cushy manor, he allows her to stay in a warehouse full of orphan boys he cares for there. It’s the perfect place to hide, and bonus, her new roommates can help her find the mysterious note. With John as their pseudo-father, they know what he does every day, and with who. Katz can’t afford any distractions, but she soon finds herself getting attached to the orphans—and John—even helping him plan for their futures.
This is the second book in the series but is easily read on its own. A well written captivating read & I enjoyed this book more than the first in the series. I really liked both John & Katz, both were dealing with issues & these added to the story. The pace was really good & the more I read the more I enjoyed it plus the added mystery of who the antagonist was kept me guessing. I’m not really a fan of time travel books but this worked for me. I look forward to more books in the series
My honest review is for a special copy I voluntarily read

Katz Almira is a time traveller. She works for a company called Time Weavers Inc and there job is to adjust changes in time that the disrupters have altered to manipulate and cause chaos.
Katz is sent back to 1815 London to prevent Napoleon from winning the battle of Waterloo.
There she meets lord John Byron her target and his merry gang of pickpockets.

This book is well written and has a decent plot, the idea of having a gang of time travellers that go back to adjust time so it does not alter the future is very appealing to me. But unfortunately this book did just not work for me.

I love the time travel romance genre, what I love about this genre is the main character being in a strange time period and trying to navigate the social interactions and what is and is not acceptable in polite society. Katz had all this information downloaded into her memories before she traveled and I get why this was done but it just ended up spoiling that aspect for me.

The romance between Katz and John was not enough for me. It was not hot or angst ridden and it just fell flat.

What I did really enjoy was the gang of pickpockets and how Katz interacted with them and coming to love them and care for them like they were her own.

This book is part of a series but can be read as a stand alone.

Regency is one genre that I rarely read, but I do love a time travel story.
Katz is part of a group that travel back in time to repair history interfered with by wrong doers.
Her mission and other missions do not count on human emotions, namely love.
In changing history something happened that made it worse and back again she went to fix it.
This was a fun story, I read it in one afternoon and loved it.

Title: A Pocket in Time
Author: Lexi Post
Series: Time Weavers Inc., Book 2
Released: Feb 22, 2021

Review copy provided by Netgalley

4 Stars

Blurb:
Katz Almira's mission as the best pickpocket for Time Weavers Inc, is simple - travel to Regency London, steal the note that ruins the world and return to the present. 

She meets her target, Lord John Byron to hide her. She stays in a warehouse of orphan boys. She never forms attachments on missions, until now. She begins to care for the boys and John.

This makeshift family keeps growing closer to her heart, but how can she stay in the past without dire consequences?

My Thoughts:

I thought this was really well done. It is in an historical time, with a modern spin on it. Katz and John were steamy from the start and I loved watching them fall. The orphan boys really added to the story and I think made Katz and John better characters for it.

If you are looking for a fun read with secondary characters that tug at your heartstrings, this is it. The time travel aspect isn't over powering to the story and just adds a fun twist.

This is a loose retelling of Oliver Twist with elements of time travel. I think the concept is different and interesting but the story took too long to get to the main event. I could have done without of a good chunk of the side plots and characters.
The romance felt forced and I didn’t really care for it either way.
I think this would have worked better if the pacing was faster.
This is part of a series but I understood enough of the background and events of the previous book that I was able to read this as a standalone.

A Pocket in Time is the second book in Lexi Post’s Time Weavers Inc. and another exciting and thoroughly engaging read. Action, danger suspense and romance are all combined to make this an explosive read. The storyline was easy to follow and the characters were well-developed and had an abundance of charisma too. I have been looking forward to this story and was not disappointed, as it was so entertaining, I found it hard to put down. The Time Weavers Inc. is far different from any of Ms Post’s other series, but every bit as addictive. I can’t wait to see what will come in the future.

This is the second book in the Time Weaver’s Incorporated series. Katz Almira travels back to Regency England to fix a disruption in the fabric of time and to maybe find the Disruptor if possible. She must help Lord John Byron and a group of young pickpockets he has befriended. I find it is almost impossible not to love a Lexi Post book! Lexi populates her prose with wonderful interesting characters that I’d like to know better. Her stories are out of the ordinary with intrigue, strong plots and interesting quirks. Excellent! Now I have to wait for the next story in this series.

Katz Almira works for TWI, Time Weavers Inc., an organization that goes back in time to find any Disruptors who have messed with the time period to fix anything they’ve disrupted. Katz grew up on the street and pick pocketed for her survival, so she’s the perfect candidate for intercepting and stealing a note that has ended up in the wrong hands and changes the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo. She finds herself trying to blend in with a group of young pickpockets, run by Katz’s mark, a Lord John Byron (no, not that Lord Byron), a former soldier who had been wounded in war. Can Katz find the note before it falls into the wrong hands?
This was not only my first time travel novel, but also my first Regency novel. Granted the “present” isn’t Regency London, but the majority of the novel resides there. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It’s the second book in the series, but can be read as a stand alone and now I want to go back and read the first book. I enjoyed there was a bit of mystery or “who done it” in this novel as well. The author does very well at giving depth to all of her characters, and you really end up caring for this band of kids, just like Katz does.

Thank you to NetGalley and the author for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The present is in peril.

The Human race has changed. Evolved. Many people now possess powers including telepathy, telekinesis, and of course time travel. And not everyone is happy with the way history turned out. That's where Time Weavers' Inc. comes in.. their mission: To preserve the present. But they're up against those who want to sow chaos or manipulate events to suit their own needs. These Disrupters, as they're known, will do anything to advance their plans. Which means that TWI has to do the same.

Enter Katz Almira. A natural thief, she's one of the best agents TWI has. Even better, she's not the type to let anyone get close... a definite perk when having to travel to the past. But this time, the case hits close to home. When she's dispatched to 1815 to prevent Napoleon from winning the Battle of Waterloo, she's thrust into the heart of a pickpocket gang run by a disabled former soldier, Lord John Byron. No, not that one. But this one is almost as dashing, although not nearly as poetic. Katz finds herself coming to care for her fellow pickpockets -- a motley crew of boys from a varied backgrounds -- and worse falling for the handsome lord.

Can Katz save the future when her heart is becoming inexorably attached to the past?

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This is the second book in the Time Weavers series and you do not need to read the first book to understand what's going on, although I'm certain it would add to the enjoyment. Firmly set on the sci-fi spectrum of time-travel romance, this story uses both mutation and quantum physics to explain how the universe works. And it's interesting how they're handling the various alternate universes and the repercussions of changing the past. This is not a Peggy-Sue got married type of time travel.

I enjoyed the characters. While at times Katz, our heroine, seemed a little closed off, it made sense in the characterization. She shied away from her own past which meant that we, as readers, were given her history in drips and drabs -- sparing us from both navel-gazing or infodump. She's competent, but not infallible. And she's both hard and soft in the way that only someone who has suffered a lot of childhood trauma can be.

I really liked John, our hero. While he was very rooted in the social mores of his age, he wasn't insufferable. I didn't mind his over-protectiveness towards the heroine because it also extended to the pickpockets in his care. His disability was plot relevant and wasn't ever forgotten and even better, it wasn't magically cured, which as someone who has a disability caused by an injury it was good to see. Both the hero and heroine suffer from PTSD and it does manifest in the story. It's handled well, and I appreciate the inclusion.

The pickpocket gang were for the most part well developed although at least one of them could have been cut entirely with very few repercussions. Pip, Hum, and Covey were my faves and they were definitely the most utilized. The other members of TWI were referenced frequently which helped ground the story and keep the series connected. I don't know who the next book is going to feature, but I am really looking forward to reading about Mouse.

The plot was tight and well woven through the romance. I was kept guessing just like the characters as to who the antagonist was, and I was pleased to note that the thing that identified them was something I myself pinpointed as an anachronism. It was a nice feature for those who know their history, but not so out there to be completely esoteric. I also liked that the majority of the action wasn't set in the glittering ballrooms of the Ton but in the seamy underbelly of London.

Which because it's set there, you should know that there's going to be a lot of topics that may be triggering for some. Trigger warning for those who need it: cw: period appropriate sexism, cw: attempted rape (not by any of the mains), cw: medical trauma (war wounds), cw: PTSD, cw: prior child abuse, cw: prior child neglect, cw: domestic abuse,. All of these are well handled and appropriate both for the story and the characters. But for those who would be triggered, it is good to know this going in.

All in all, I enjoyed this novel,. and I've already gone and checked out the first book from the library. So because of that, I'm going to give this:

Five Stars

I received an ARC via NetGalley. Thank you to Entangled: Amara for letting me read this.

Welcome to Time Weavers This was a fun story. Katz is one of the best agents that they have and her next mission is to travel back to Regency London. While there she meets her new mark Lord John Byron. But the one thing Katz didn’t plan on was falling in love with him. They had a fun, sexy, intriguing relationship. This was a wonderful take on time travel. Enjoy.

My Thoughts:

A Pocket in Time is an enjoyable romp about Katz Almira, the time-traveling woman from the future who is attempting to stop her future from being torn apart by someone who has gone back in time to mess important events up. She is thrown into Lord John Byron's path by her duties and finds his pull quite strong.

I chose this book because I love well written time travel romance novels, and this sounded like it was going to be a really good one, and I wasn't wrong. I also thought (wrongly) that the cover depicted a man wearing a kilt, but I now realize it was just the many buttoned breeches of the past. Let me start off by saying I was lead to believe that even though this was the second book in a series that it was considered to be a stand alone and I could read it without context. Although this might be true, they do make quite a lot of references to the previous book, and I find myself wishing I had read On Highland Time first. I will certainly be going back to read it at some point in time.

The title is a great play on words as she is a pick pocket, from the future, back in time trying to fit in, but also because the story references the fact that a time traveler who visits the same point in time more than one can cause a pocket in time, which of course foreshadows events that will occur.

The future is very intriguing, and I would like to learn more about it. Once again I assume I might learn more from reading the first book. But there is also something thrown in right at the end that was very confusing, and I am guessing will hopefully lead to a third book? I would like to know more about how the time travel works, the genetic mutations that allow for that time travel, and why it's only women (except Go-Lucky). When exactly is this future? I would like to know more about some of the more interesting characters like old Arthur with his grey/silver eyes who is their researcher and has the ability to "download" information to the agent's mind, kind of like in The Matrix, but without technology?

Katz is strong and sassy, and doesn't take any shit. She has been on her own for a very long time, has learned from the streets, and knows how to survive. She also refuses to love again. A woman named Sadie took her in at some point and helped her survive, but not much else is known about her except that she died. I would like to learn more about this Sadie and her time with Katz. Sadly, Katz was left alone again, with promises to herself never to love again, because love causes pain and makes you vulnerable. She doesn't want to be put in that situation ever again. She feels unlovable.

"No. I don't love anyone. Love means you lose perspective, become vulnerable. I refuse to do that."

Lord John Byron is a wonderful man. He used to be a typical rich white man who only cared for himself, but war has changed him. Not only has his leg been damaged, causing him to limp with pain quite often, but his eyes have been opened to the world around him, and all the suffering. Upon his return from war he takes in several homeless pick pockets and lets them stay in a hidden section of his warehouse. He cares for them as much as they will allow. He takes a percentage of their takes from the streets (because they wouldn't have it any other way) and donates it to care for the soldiers on the front lines. He was my favorite character in the story, as well as a few of the boys.

A few minor things bothered me, like the fact that Katz has only been with the agency for a year and is already the best, and can almost defeat her trainer? That seems hard to believe. Also, sometimes the language would throw me out of the story. I loved the general flow of the book, the story-telling and the dialogue of all the characters, but there were a few scenes when things were getting a bit hot and heavy and a word like "cock" was thrown out, and I just didn't feel like it fit in the specific situation. Better choices could have been made to portray the actions but with the more gentle language of the story overall. I hope that makes sense.

Overall I highly enjoyed this story, and the world it exists in. I will be going back to read book one, and I hope to hear updates of a third book in the near future, however with almost 3 years between books one and two, I am not holding my breath.

The Pros:
Wonderfully full and realistic characters like Lord John Byron.
The world building is very well done, both past and present. I would like to know more about the present/future.

The Cons:
Katz is a little too talented and perfect at what she does to be believable at times.
Some awkward word choices took me out of the story at points.

Thanks Netgalley for allowing me to read this book. Katz mission is to journey back time to steal a note and then return. What could go wrong. It turns out everything. Katz is starting to have feelings for Lord. Byron who is her target. I enjoyed the chemistry between Lord Byron and Katz.